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{{Short description|American-born Danish percussionist}}
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[[File:MrilynMazursShamania1-Vossajazz2016.jpg|thumb|Marilyn Mazur's Shamania at [[Vossajazz]] 2016]]
 
'''Marilyn Mazur''' (born January 18, 1955) is aan American-born [[Denmark|Danish]] percussionist, drummer, composer, vocalist, pianist, dancer, and bandleader. She was born in New York City and has lived in Denmark since age six. She is of Polish and African-American descent. Since 1975, she has worked as a percussionist with various groups, among them Six Winds with [[Alex Riel]]. Mazur is primarily an [[Autodidacticism|autodidact]], but she has a degree in percussion from the [[Royal Danish Academy of Music]].
 
==Musical life==
SheMazur haswas workedborn in New York City in 1955, from Polish and African-American parents, who moved with manyher to Denmark at age 6. She learned to play the musicianspiano, includingbut when she was 19, she took up drumming, inspired by [[JohnAl TchicaiFoster]], [[PierreAirto DørgeMoreira]], and ([[NewAlex Jungle OrchestraRiel]]). She started her first band in 1973, [[Niels-Henning''Zirenes''.<ref Ørstedname=star/> Pedersen]]In 1978, [[Palleshe Mikkelborg]]formed ''Primi'', [[Arildan Andersen]]all-woman theatre band.<ref name=tucker>{{cite news |url=https://jazzjournal.co.uk/2019/04/25/marilyn-mazurs-shamania-shamania/ |accessdate=April 22, 2021 |newspaper=[[EberhardJazz WeberJournal]] |title=Marilyn Mazur's Shamania: ''Shamania'' |first=Michael |last=Tucker |date=April 25, 2019}}</ref> In 1985, she was asked to participate in the [[PeterPalle KowaldMikkelborg]], project that would become the [[JeanneMiles LeeDavis]], album ''[[JanAura Garbarek(Miles Davis album)|Aura]]'', and soon after she went on the road with Miles Davis.<ref name="bz"/star>{{cite news |url=https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/c/we-strive-global-unity-link |newspaper=[[MilesMorning DavisStar (British newspaper)|Morning Star]] |accessdate=April 22,<ref name2021 |title="bz"'We strive for global unity': The extraordinary jazz drummer Marilyn Mazur talks to Chris Searle about the impulse behind her latest album Shamania}}</ref> Afterward, she played with [[WayneGil ShorterEvans]], [[GilWayne EvansShorter]], [[DhaferJan YoussefGarbarek]],<ref name=tucker/> and [[Makiko Hirabayashi]].<ref name="bz">{{cite news|url=http://www.badische-zeitung.de/rock-pop/tanz-zwischen-den-genres--53270251.html|title=Tanz zwischen den Genres|date=12 December 2011|work=[[Badische Zeitung]]|language=German|accessdate=8 November 2015}}</ref> (Makiko Hirabayashi Trio).
 
Her all-Scandinavian band Shamania consists of avant-garde female musicians.<ref name=star/>
In 1989, she founded the band Future Song, with pianist [[Elvira Plenar]], singer [[Aina Kemanis]], trumpet player [[Nils Petter Molvær]], her husband Klavs Hovman (bass) and [[Audun Kleive]], as a second drummer. Later jazz singer [[Tone Åse]] joined the band. In a second project, Percussion Paradise, she works regularly with percussionists [[Benita Haastrup]], Lisbeth Diers and Birgit Løkke.
 
The U.S. magazine ''[[Down Beat]]'', in 1989, 1990, 1995, 1997, 1998 and 2002 selected Mazur as a "percussion-talent deserving wider recognition". In 2001, she was awarded the [[Jazzpar Prize]], the world's largest international jazz prize.
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* Ben Webster Prize, [[Ben Webster]] Foundation, 1983
* JASA Prize, Danish jazz journalists, 1989
* [[Jazzpar Prize]], 2001<ref name=tucker/>
* Edition Wilhelm Hansens Composer Prize, 2004
* Danish Django dOr (Legend), 2006
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* ''Rags & the Golddiggers'' (ReR, 1991)
 
'''With [[Pierre DorgeDørge]]'''
* ''Pierre Dorge & New Jungle Orchestra'' (SteepleChase, 1982)
* ''Brikama'' (SteepleChase, 1984)
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* [[Yelena Eckemoff]], ''[[Forget-me-not]]'' (L&H, 2011)
* [[Agnes Buen Garnas]], ''Han Rider Den Morke Natt'' (Via Music 2002)
* [[Caroline Henderson (singer)|Caroline Henderson]], ''Made in Europe'' (Stunt, 2004)
* [[Nikolaj Hess]], ''Playin'' (Music Mecca, 2000)
* Nikolaj Hess, ''Rhapsody'' (Cloud, 2016)
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* [[Caecilie Norby]], ''Sisters in Jazz'' (ACT, 2019)
* [[Charlie Mariano]], ''Innuendo'' (Lipstick, 1992)
* [[Niels-Henning OrstedØrsted Pedersen]], ''Uncharted Land'' (Pladecompagniet, 1992)
* [[Rena Rama]], ''Rena Rama with Marilyn Mazur'' (Dragon, 1989)
* [[Helge Sunde]], ''Denada'' (ACT, 2006)
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